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NC-2009 SSc2:Development Density and Community Connectivity

Multiple types of medical office

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Maura Adams
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My review team said that four of my ten basic services were medical offices and that I could only count that service once. However, the purposes of these facilities are very different: lab testing, mental health, sports medicine, wellness classes. They don't duplicate any services. What's the rationale behind not allowing each of them to count? Do I have any recourse here? I have other services to use instead, but I'm irritated that these clearly unique services can't be counted individually.

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Tristan Roberts
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Thu, 07/12/2012 - 17:06

Maura, as you can see from past discussions on this forum, and the FAQs above, LEED is fairly strict about the letter of requirements here. You are probably stuck with the review standing as is. I definitely sympathize with your pont, in defense of the review requirement I would say that these facilities are similar enough that it could be argued there is not enough diversity in the 10 services you are listing, and that is one of the purposes of the list of 10.

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